An Extra Who Wants To Escape The Obsessive Male Lead - Chapter 89.1

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Chapter 89.1

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His words startled me.

“…The real Ferro?”

She didn’t seem like a guest. If she were, I would have known. I was the mistress of the house, so there was no way I wouldn’t have known if an outsider had come into Argenta’s mansion while it was preparing for war.

Then, there was only one answer.

…She had been hiding in this mansion since before the war preparations had begun.

“You were hiding the real Ferro?”

My mind was in turmoil, but I didn’t have time to think.

Thud!

While I was momentarily distracted, the real Ferro, Venia, surged her water again. As she turned to me and stretched out her hand, the water rippled with a pungent scent.

Was it a momentary illusion, or did her hand seem to be consumed by a murky blue light?

“….!”

The blue light’s magic power drained from my hand, which I had quickly extended.

Bam!

Suppressing Venia’s magic power required more strength than I had thought. It was as if the power of the source that had flowed out was being concentrated.

“….?”

However, her condition was even stranger.

…Was she really rampaging?

The members of the Alors assassins I had seen in the ocean had looked like that… No, she was similar to them, but she felt subtly different. She was like a withered tree, something hollow and losing its vitality.

“….!”

And what was draining her vitality was something like a white pearl embedded in her hand.

“I should have killed you as soon as you got here!”

Her murderous intent was clearly directed at me. As she surged her magic power again, the water I had pushed down boiled and rippled again.

“What the―”

As soon as I arrived, Venia’s target of attack had changed from Diello to me. It was hard to grasp the situation when I was being attacked right away. Still, one thing was for certain was that the relationship between the real Ferro, Venia, and Diello was seriously bad.

Perhaps even worse than in the original story. And above all, Diello had no intention of accepting her as Ferro.

…If he had intended to accept her as Ferro, he wouldn’t have hidden her from me in the first place and would have married her.

Boom!

I blocked the water that was surging up again.

Even though my whole body trembled from the strong force, when something surged up inside me, a strong force burst out in succession.

Splash!

The water that was surging up at me changed direction and engulfed Venia.

I gritted my teeth. I couldn’t look at Diello. I didn’t know what expression to make when I looked at him.

He had hidden Ferro from me until now.

Although it had collapsed, judging from the inside of the basement, it didn’t seem like she had been here for only a day or two. He had hidden her even though he knew I had been searching for the Ferro for a long time.

“Please stay in Argenta.”

…I thought I knew why he did that.

Nonetheless, he had watched me desperately searching for Ferro and hadn’t told me about her, even though he knew. No, if he had shared with me from the beginning that Ferro had come…

“Please stay, Krua.”

…I would have asked for a divorce.

But even if I didn’t want to do that, why on earth would he hide her when we were on the brink of war…!

“How does Krua Alors have such power!”

Venia shouted in outrage.

She pointed a finger at Diello.

“You’ve been deceived by him too, you know? He’s not weak or gentle at all!”

Her shouts continued, “No wonder even his own parents hated and feared him! They weren’t wrong! They had a monstrous child!”

Venia’s curses echoed through the basement.

Diello didn’t deny it.

For some reason, I felt as if my heart was being squeezed by something. Of course, I couldn’t deny everything she said. If he had really been a pure Lord of Argenta, he wouldn’t have hidden Ferro from me.

However…

“I knew he wasn’t just gentle.”

“What?”

Venia frowned. I said to her.

“And you keep saying I’ve been deceived, but ever since I came here…”

As I spoke, my mind began to sink coldly.

“Rather than being gentle, I hoped he was a cunning person.”

Because then, it would be easier for us to survive.

…I didn’t know how he interpreted my desire to survive, but he hid the Ferro.

Venia’s mouth hung open at my words. She seemed to think that I had always considered Diello to be a gentle person. If I had heard such words when I first came to Argenta, I would have been shaken though not now.